The Wisdom of Inflection Points
Going through a stack of math magazines collecting dust at a corner of my home office, I came across a September 17, 2008 quote from the future Vice President Joe Biden at a campaign rally (Am Math Monthly, v 116, n 4, p 341. Thanks to Pamela Pierce):
Remember your calculus class, you learned about an inflection point? That's the point at which, like, you're driving your car, where the steering wheel is dead straight, and once you make a move, even to a degree, you commit that automobile hurtling in a direction you can't immediately change. Well, in American history, there's probably been four or five inflection points, where we've reached a moment in our history where the turn we're about to make is going to lock us for the better part of a generation.
Do not tell me now you have not been forewarned.
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